X x x x x



stent @Hire PUROHES MILES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THEODOR-EMAGE,

OF THE SAME ILAOE.

Letters Patent lll'o..73,453, dated January 2l, 1868.

IMPROVED SAUSAGE-STUFFER.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, PURCIIES MILES, ofthe city and State of New York,have invented, made, and applied to use, a certain new and usefulImprovement in Sausagc-Stuifers; and I do hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact'description of the said invention,reference being had to the annexed drawing, making part of thisspecification, wherein- Figure 1 is a. 'vertical section of the saidstuffcr, and

Figure 2 is a plan of the same.

Similar marks of reference denote the same, parts.

In sausage-stuffeis heretofore made, a swinging paddle has been employedin a segmental case, and also a acting in a curved case; but in thesestuifers the space filled by the paddle or piston was the trat-ing orsqueezing action by the piston itself, resulthe meat was too swingingpiston, same at both ends of its stroke, and there was no conccn ingfrom the same being contracted into a. smaller chamber; hence the spacefor rcccivingt much contracted, and the hopper near the spout was toolarge.

The nature of my said invention consists in a double piston, that isswung on an axis, and one part slides on the other, in combination witha hopperJ contracted towards the point of delivery of the meat, andprovided with ribs or grooves, that control the movementof,..thc'sliding portion of the piston, so that said piston passes overand grasps the meat placed in the hopper, and rapidly concentrates thesame into a smaller space, and forces it out through the nozzle orspout. By this construction I am enabled to operate on'a larger amountof meat, andwith greater' rapidity, in proportion to the size of theapparatus, than heretofore.

In the drawing, t is'the vertical side, 6 the curved side, and c e theends of the hopper. cl isthe tapering nozzle for receiving thesheet-metal stuffing-tube, and c e are legs supporting the Studer. Theplates forming this hopper are to be bolted or riveted together at theangles. The axis f ofthe piston is introduced in bearings formed for itin the side a and ends c c, and projects toncceive a crank or lever, g,by which it is moved. h is the standing portion of the piston, and z'the slidingpart, fitted with a V rib and slide, and with lugs at theangles, entering elliptical grooves Z, in the end plates c c.

Y It will now be seen that the piston t z', when in the position shownin the dra\ving,'i`s contracted, the part z'bcing slid towards the axisfj but as the piston is turned on its axis, the portion t' is sliddenout by thev grooves Zacting on the lugs, and thus the piston isincreased in area to pass over and grasp the meat contained in thehopper. -The movement of the piston quickly concentrates the loose massof meat, and thosamc is compressed and forced out of the nozzle, thespace for the meat being constantly lessened in width by the contractionof the hopper, the piston accommodating itself thereto by sliding in,until the parts occupy the contracted form shown in iig. 1 by red lines.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is p The swingingdouble piston, the one part sliding on the other, in combination withthe hopper, contracted as and for the purposes set forth. Y

I also claim the elliptical grooves or ribs as and for the purposes setforth.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my signature, this ninth l, incombination with thehopper and sliding and swinging piston,

day of August, A. D. 1867.

' PURCHES MILES.

Witnesses: Tiros. Geo. HAROLD,

Guns.V I-I. SMITH.

